María de la Concepción "Maya" Widmaier-Picasso (born 1935 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) is the daughter of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter. She has devoted part of her life to the study and preservation of the legacy of her father.[1][2]

Maya is notably represented in the series of Picasso paintings Maya à la poupée.

She is the second of her father's four children. She has one older half-brother, Paulo (1921-1975) (the father of Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and Marina Picasso), from her father's marriage to ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova and two younger half-siblings, Claude (born in 1947) and Paloma (born in 1949), from her father's relationship with painter Françoise Gilot.

She was married to Pierre Widmaier and has had three children: Olivier, Richard, and Diana. Diana Widmaier Picasso is an art historian specialized in the work of her grandfather Pablo Picasso.

In 2017, Gagosian Gallery presented in Paris the exhibition Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter, curated by Diana Widmaier Picasso. It was the first exhibition devoted to Picasso's portraits of his eldest daughter.[3]

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